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Duke 390 is a go! Blog Part 1

Blog author and master of wit, ‘Pump Kinn’, was in Salzburg this week for the press presentation of the KTM 390 Duke. Here are his thoughts and impressions of the new bike It is nice to spend the day on … Continue reading

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1190 Adventure Blog Day 11: Timeline

Into the final sprint here for the 1190 Adventure press launch. It was great again today with 21 testers streaming along over the island, Tenerife was – once more – the hub of 1190 Adventure activity. Along with 21 journalists … Continue reading

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1190 Adventure Blog Day 10: Cake for Cyril

Ten days ago I travelled to Tenerife. Now we are close to the final sessions of the international press launch of the KTM 1190 Adventure. So far almost 70 journalists and testers have climbed aboard our new ‘baby’ to gather … Continue reading

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1190 Adventure Day 9: What we know…

The third group of testers at the 1190 Adventure press launch here in Tenerife turns out pretty colourful again. We have journalists from Great Britain, Holland and France getting to grips with the capable bars of our adventure bike, but … Continue reading

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1190 Adventure Blog Day 8: A journalist interviewed!

No riding today. So I switched things around and interviewed a journalist: Simon Weir from British magazine ‘RIDE’. He is one of five British journos flying in today to Tenerife to test the new KTM 1190 Adventure.

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